First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
MATSUO BASHOWhen composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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